7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (18 April - Review)

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3. LWO Still A Jobber Faction?

To be fair, it’s been less than a month since Rey Mysterio re-formed the LWO, but the faction hasn’t exactly been a house afire since arriving on the scene.

Taking the former Legado del Fantasma and folding them in with Rey as the LWO was a fine idea, giving the stable a Hall-of-Fame name at the top to potentially bolster the group. But since Mysterio handed them all the T-shirts on the 31 March episode of SmackDown, the group and its members have won just one match: when Rey defeated his son Dominik at WrestleMania 39.

On Monday night, Rey battled Solo Sikoa as the Bloodline and Judgment Day attempted to solve each other’s problems. When the Usos attempted to interfere, the LWO sprang into action and attacked them, but Mysterio still fell to Sokola moments later.

Then afterward, the Usos recovered and the Bloodline laid out the LWO in short order, leaving all four men sprawled on the canvass. It was another low point for the LWO in their short existence.

This isn’t to say the group is doomed by any stretch, but it’s funny that WWE romanticizes what was essentially a luchador jobber faction in WCW and then has had them being just a half-step above that in 2023 WWE. At least they closed the show strong, but some in-ring success soon would be nice and add value to the group.